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DEVICE FOR REDUCING DISTORTBD FINGERITIPS.

N0. 500,056. Patented June 20, 1893' UNITED STATES PATENT -OFFICE.

FRANK B. DANTE, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR TO FRED. G. NORRIS, SAME PLACE.

DEVICE FOR REDUCING DISTORTED FINGER-TIPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o.- 500,056, dated June 20, 1893.

Application filed August 23, 1892. Serial No. 443,925. (No model.) 7

To 6026 whom it may concern.- seen that byvarying the size of the rings and 'Be it known thatLFRANKB. DANTE,acitiadjusting them to position on the conical zen of the United States, residing at Wash body I can adjust the taper to the desired anington, in the District of Columbia, have ingle and in this way I can start the operation vented a new and useful Improvement in Finwith aslighttaper and increase'it at pleasure, 5 5 ger Tapering and Joint Reducing Devices; besides making one set of devices answer for and I do hereby declare the following to be a variformed fingers as it is evident that some full, clear, and exact description of the same, fingers cannot be tapered as much as others, 1 reference beinghad to the accompanyingdraweven by gradually increasing the angle of the ings, forming a part thereof. conical sides as the finger conforms thereto. 60

My invention relates to that class of devices To retain the rings in place I indent them known as finger taperers or joint reducers, and from the inside and provide the body of the has for its object certain improvements theredevice with a series of projections which when in to better adapt it to the purpose intended. the rings are placed on will register with and I attain my object in the manner set forth pass through them. Then byturningthe rings 65 in the specification and claims and illustrated so that the indentations and projections no in the accompanying drawings, in Which longer coincide, I thus prevent the rings from Figure 1 is a side view of my improvecoming off until it is desired to removethem. ment. Fig. 2 is a top View of myimprove- To prevent the edges of the longitudinal slot ment. Fig. 3- isalongitudinal section. Fig. from marking the fingers Ibevel them off or 70 4- shows a ring indented from the inside. make them rounding. v v Fig. 5- is an end view showingamodification I also show in Fig. 5 a modification of my of my improvement in which instead of a slot, device Where I dispense with the longitudinal the edges are beveled and over-lap each other. opening and bevel the edges, so, that when Heretofore these devices have been made they lap upon each other they will be flush 75 without means of adjustment either of the with the surface. It is also evident that the taper, or the annular opening so as to adapt rings may be made without the indentations them to fingers of different size and shape and the body of the device without the prorendering them painful to the wearer, and in jections.

many cases more likely to create than to cure As at present constructed my device con- 80 malformation. To overcome these difficulties sists of the truncated cone A having a lon- 1 form my device of two or more parts, the gitudinal slot B and aseries of projections body being a truncated cone with an annular G, the body having'an annular opening exopening through its entire length, and a lontending the full length and a series of rings 5 gitudinal opening likewise extending its en- D varying in size and provided with inden- 85 tire length. I then provide one or more rings tations from the inside to enable them to be which, when placed upon the conical body placed and retained upon the conical body. will tend to close the longitudinal slot as it or I have only shown one ring as all are alike they are forced from the smaller to the larger except as to size and it is obvious that they 0 end of the cone. In this way by having rings need not be indented unless it is desired to 0 of different size I can increase or decrease the do so. taper by placing a larger or smaller ring on Having thus described my invention, what the large end of the cone. I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters If I wish to make the body approximately Patent, is-

straight I place two rings on the cone of 1. A finger tapering device and joint re- 5 nearly equal size (of course if necessaryI can ducer consisting of a hollow truncated cone place rings of relative size between these end slotted upon its upper surfaceits entire length rings). If Iwish to make it quite tapering I and open at both ends substantially as deplace a very small ring on the narrow end and scribed.

a large one on the wide end; it will thus be 2. A finger tapering device and joint re- 10o dncer consisting of a hollow truncated cone more rings having indentations,substantially [0 opened upon one side, in combination with as described.

one or more rings adapted to enlarge or lessen In testimony whereof I aliix my signature in the annular opening through said cone, subpresence of two witnesses. i

5 stantially as described.

3. A finger tapering device and joint re- FRANK ducer consisting of a hollow truncated cone Witnesses:

opened on one side and provided with exte- HERBERT E. WOODWARD',

rior projections in combination with one or H. M, PHILLIPS. 

